The Japanese airline All Nippon Airways must remove its Airbus A2024neo and A320neo medium-haul jets from flight operations from January 321 for inspection purposes. This is expected to impact around 60 flights per day. 

The affected machines are equipped with the PW1100G engine and Pratt & Whitney and are therefore affected by the manufacturer's recall campaign. Quality defects have been identified that require an early inspection. Due to delivery bottlenecks, there are not enough replacement engines available. A huge number of airlines that use jets equipped with this engine are affected. The costs for Pratt & Whitney are enormous because the company had to last announce a billion-dollar loss. 

All Nippon Airways will carry out the work necessary for safety reasons on a staggered basis between January 10th and March 30th, 2024. Around 30 international flights have to be canceled per day during this period. Mathematically, this corresponds to around 3,6 percent of the Japanese airline's daily offering. According to official information, care is taken to ensure that routes are mainly affected where there are several flights per day or where codeshare partners can increase capacity at short notice. In domestic traffic, ANA states the extent of the cancellations as 28 daily rotations. 

“The safety of our passengers and crew is our top priority and we will continue to monitor the situation and take appropriate action if necessary,” the ANA statement said. It is currently not possible to estimate the impact on the financial result. This will be communicated publicly in the business plan for 2024 at the end of January.